“Where there is no vision the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18
“We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.” Psalm 74:9
A word to the wise: there is a broad gap between real vision and being visionary. Real vision is seeing what really is and taking into account that which relates to reality. Visionary is about something not yet in reality, but is imaginary and more speculative than probable.
We need to be so much about real vision, that we discount being visionary: “…make your calling and election sure” 2 Peter 1:10-11.
We can easily step away from seeing God’s will for our lives with visionary thoughts about how fulfilling our lives can be if we go our own way. Thus, the prodigal son, Luke 15:11-24.
However, as James 4:13-17 tells us, when we make the plans of our lives on our visionary thinking, instead of, “If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that”, we can easily forsake doing what we know is the good will of God, unto our differing way being sin.
By being visionary, Naomi’s husband took her and their two sons away from Israel (God’s covenant place for them) unto going to Moab, with thoughts of improving their lives. Since this was a visionary move based on human desire and hopefulness, rather than the vision of proving what the will of the Lord was, even in times of tribulation, it proved out to be, “I went out full, and the Lord hath brought be home again empty.” Ruth 1:21
Satan tempts us to be visionary about life’s choices, rather than clear our vision with the truth of God’s Word: Matthew 4:8-10. Satan shewed Christ the visionary picture that if He would fall down and worship Satan, Jesus could have the glory of all the kingdoms of this world, to which Christ replied with the vision of truth: “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
True vision takes into full account what is, seeing what needs to be done, must be done, as well as seeing what will happen if it is not done.
Disinterest and neglect are the result of no longer seeing the importance of what is real.
SHARING
